Village and colony asylums in Britain, Ireland and Germany, 1880-1914 : environmental approaches to patient treatment in Edwardian institutions for the insane /

Village and colony asylums in Britain, Ireland and Germany, 1880-1914 : environmental approaches to patient treatment in Edwardian institutions for the insane /

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Author / Creator:	Allmond, Gillian, author.
Imprint:	Oxford, UK : BAR Publishing, 2021. ©2021
Description:	xxiv, 301 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 30 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	BAR British series ; 665 BAR British series ; 665.
Subject:	Psychiatric hospitals -- Great Britain -- Design and construction -- History -- 20th century. Psychiatric hospitals -- Scotland -- Design and construction -- History -- 20th century. Psychiatric hospitals -- Ireland -- Design and construction -- History -- 20th century. Psychiatric hospitals -- Germany -- Design and construction -- History -- 20th century. Hospital architecture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. Hospital architecture -- Scotland -- History -- 20th century. Hospital architecture -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century. Hospital architecture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century. Psychiatric hospitals -- Great Britain -- Design and construction -- History -- 19th century. Psychiatric hospitals -- Scotland -- Design and construction -- History -- 19th century. Psychiatric hospitals -- Ireland -- Design and construction -- History -- 19th century. Psychiatric hospitals -- Germany -- Design and construction -- History -- 19th century. Garden cities -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. Psychiatric hospitals -- Design and construction. Great Britain -- Social policy. Germany -- Social policy. Germany. Great Britain. Ireland. History.
Format:	Map Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12733766

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ISBN:	9781407357584 1407357581 9781407357591 140735759X
Notes:	Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Queen's University, Belfast, 2018), which was presented under title: The colony asylum in Scotland and Ireland, 1880-1914. Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-301).
Summary:	"This book analyses the buildings, interiors and landscapes of asylums for the insane poor in the early part of the twentieth century, exploring the ways in which environments were seen as therapeutic. An innovative type of asylum layout - the village or colony asylum - is considered in detail. Gillian Allmond offers an original approach to asylum analysis, using field observation, documents and published materials to connect asylum materiality to contemporary discourses of health and poverty. The book shows how the Edwardian understanding of the therapeutic qualities of light and air, together with the promotion of bourgeois domestic ideals, influenced the design of exteriors and interiors in the hope of remaking the minds of the mentally ill. Layout analysis includes the discovery that at least one asylum was based on Ebenezer Howard's 'garden city'. This innovative study is a significant contribution to the growing literature on the historical archaeology of institutions."--Back cover (page 4 of cover); publisher's web site.

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